LabBook May 24, 2013

The University of Chicago Medicine and campus view from 63rd Street and Drexel parking garage (Photo by Robert Kozloff)

THIS WEEK ON THE BLOG

On Tuesday, we posted a story by Carl Zimmer from the New York Times about new research on the evolution of dogs from wolves as they domesticated, including work by Chang-I Wu from the Department of Ecology and Evolution on how wolves may have domesticated themselves for the benefits of living around humans.

Also on Tuesday, we covered the 67th annual Pritzker Scientific Session, where fourth-year medical students show off the research projects they conducted alongside faculty during their clinical studies.

Yesterday was the day for Nature to cover research from the University of Chicago: First, they covered research being done by Matthew Brady, Esra Tasali and Eve Van Cauter here at UChicago on how poor sleep affects the body’s metabolism …